Poor planning or poor execution of plans is simply to let some force other than reason shape reality.

General, you don't have a war plan! All you have is a kind of horrible spasm!

They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations.

I formed the hypothesis that each of us could have achieved our objectives without the terrible loss of life. And I wanted to test that by going to Vietnam.

The picture of the world's greatest superpower killing or seriously injuring 1,000 noncombatants a week, while trying to pound a tiny backward nation into submission on an issue whose merits are hotly disputed, is not a pretty one.

Management is the gate through which social and economic and political change, indeed change in every direction, is diffused though society.

Measure what is important, don't make important what you can measure